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Dec 21 - "Holiday Stress - Can We Vent?" by postmodernista & mettle fatigue
Dec 28 - "Some Brighter Hopes on the Horizon for Alzheimers Prevention and Treatment"
by GreenMother
JANUARY 2015 - TENTATIVE OPEN THREAD & POTLUCK MONTH - a.k.a. "winter break"...
we'll still be here, just takin' it easy for a few weeks ;-)
January 4 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: New Year's Resolutions — for health or humor?
Jan 11 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite bad joke!
Jan 18 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite bumpersticker!
Jan 25 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite surprising medical/health thing you've found out about or that you wonder about.
February 1 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite late winter/early spring easy recipe!
Feb 8 - “Never Again: Coming to Grips with Life After Stroke - Year 1...and 23”
by Steven Park
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Picking multiple topics for email notification may flood your inbox, since a tremendous number of medical journals worldwide contribute articles to Medscape, so it's a good idea to start with few or just one notification topic, and see how it goes (or none, if you prefer access without emails).
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Medscape Ethics Report 2014, Part 1: Life, Death, and Pain (slideshow) ‗‗‗‗‗
Life-and -Death Decisions That Keep Doctors Up at Night ‗‗‗‗‗
What Do [physicians] Think About Physician Ethics? ‗‗‗‗‗
Reader Poll: Are Racial Profiling, Police Brutality Public Health Issues? ‗‗‗‗‗
#WhiteCoats4BlackLives: Med Students Protest Police Brutality ‗‗‗‗‗
Physician Suicide 101: Secrets, Lies, and Solutions - Pamela L. Wible, MD (adapted from a lecture presented at the 2014 American Academy of Family Physicians Assembly, October 2014, Washington, DC) ‗‗‗‗‗
'On a Roof Looking Over the Edge': Why Physicians Commit Suicide ‗‗‗‗‗
Physician Workforce Diversity [is] Key in Improving Access to Care] ‗‗‗‗‗
Usual Source of Care [is] Key to Reducing ED Use "A shortage of primary care providers threatens to stunt the positive effects of having more people insured, researchers warn." ‗‗‗‗‗
Medical Marijuana: A Primer on Ethics, Evidence, and Politics Journal for Nurse Practitioners November 2014 ‗‗‗‗‗
Scientists Grapple With Ethics in Rush to Release Ebola Vaccines - September 2014 ‗‗‗‗‗
Patient Choice and Narrative Ethics (about narrative ethics in medicine -- and how this approach could open up the dialogue during patient consultations) ‗‗‗‗‗
Ethics in Medicine: What Makes Psychiatrists Unique? (2013) ‗‗‗‗‗
The Ethics of Personalized Medicine (i.e., genomics): A Philosopher's Perspective ‗‗‗‗‗
Cancer Gene Sequencing Raises New Medical Ethics Issues ‗‗‗‗‗
The Ethics of Advocacy for Undocumented Patients ‗‗‗‗‗
Health Reform and the Still-Uninsured: The New Requirements of the Old Ethics ‗‗‗‗‗
Physician, Patient, Parent (when a doctor is all 3):
...I would like to get personal, not something I am accustomed to doing. I am reserved when it comes to my personal life. But, in some ways, that is the old me. I have Crohn's disease. This essay is about how my [disease experience] has reshaped my perceptions of boundaries in medicine, particularly [regarding] self-disclosure. I became a pediatrician first, then a parent, and now a patient ... I'd like to make the case for more of a reframing and a blurring of personal and professional boundaries regarding self-disclosure...
MORE AT Medscape Ethics Center - News & Perspectives